Almost two thirds of people support a mass deportation programme, bombshell new polling has revealed.
As many as two million migrants could be living illegally in the UK, it has been claimed.
And new research – by Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain – revealed 62.9% of people support detaining and deporting every illegal migrant.
This includes small boat arrivals, visa overstayers and failed asylum seekers.
Rupert Lowe MP, leader of Restore Britain, said: “The public are unequivocal that they want an end to the chaos and the deportation of every illegal migrant currently living here.
“Unlike many in Westminster, the common sense majority of British people can see the economic and social harm being caused by the erosion of our borders.
“Yet despite this national sentiment, the government is struggling to deport a single illegal migrant back to France.
“Following overwhelming support from our members, Restore Britain will now set out a plan as to how every last person living here illegally can be detected, detained and deported.
“It is what the country wants and it is what the country needs.”
Mr Lowe’s petition calling for mass deportations hit 300,000 signatures days after being launched.
The petition on the official Parliament website by the Independent MP calls on the Government to establish offshore detention facilities to process and deport illegal migrants.
And polling – shared exclusively with the Daily Express revealed 62.9% support a mass deportation programme.
Some 72% of people in the North East support such a policy.
This is marginally higher than the 71% in the East Midlands.
More than half of people in London support the idea.
The vast majority of Conservative (84%) and Reform (80%) supporters back the proposals.
A staggering 55% of Liberal Democrat voters even support the idea, the survey of 2,000 people by FindOutNow said.
Less than half of Labour and Green Party voters support the proposal.
And analysis of Mr Lowe’s petition revealed the top 10 local areas who support detaining and deporting hundreds of thousands of people.
Voters in Nigel Farage’s constituency of Clacton was among four constituencies in Essex were amongst the biggest supporters of a mass deportation programme.
Mr Lowe’s petition was signed by 1,953 people in Great Yarmouth – the highest number of any constituency. Another 1,346 in Carlisle signed it, 1,181 in Houghton and Sunderland South, 958 in Makerfield and 910 in Sunderland Central.
In Essex, 789 signed the petition in Brentwood and Ongar, 790 in Rayleigh and Wickford, 827 in Castle Point and 753 in Clacton.
Reform UK has vowed to deport 600,000 migrants within five years if it wins the next General Election.
Nigel Farage vowed to create a “UK Deportation Command” to identify every illegal arrival living in the UK, with five removal flights per day.
And he insisted Britain must leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act and ignore key refugee treaties.
Mr Farage declared the UK would copy Donald Trump’s mass-deportation programme by ordering Home Office Immigration Enforcement teams to carry out “large scale raids” across the country.
The Conservatives have also vowed to deport all illegal migrants.
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick welcomed Reform’s plan to deport 600,000 illegal immigrants, adding it must be a “priority” for the next Government.
He added: “It’s obviously going to be very important that we deport all the illegal migrants in the country and the next government has to make that their priority.”
On asylum accommodation, he added: “They should be detained in camps.
“The facilities will need to be rudimentary prisons, not holiday camps. It’s not what Reform have suggested, which is cabins with a fence around them.”
Tory MP Katie Lam said: “Net migration since 2021 has been 3.4 million people, my view, and the party policy view, is that a lot of those people will need to go home again.
“They came on a five year visa, They will stay for their visa, and then it’s time to go home, rather than to get what’s called Indefinite Leave to Remain and settle in the UK and stay. So from the people who’ve come here and are here legitimately, you should have a lot of people leaving.
“Best estimates, there are between one and 2 million people in the UK illegally.
“I think all of those people should leave, just by definition, because they shouldn’t have been here in the first place.
“Either they’ve come here illegally, or they’ve overstayed a visa. So you’re looking at millions of people leaving over relatively few years, over a relatively short space of time.”
